Cape Town: Lead Software Engineer – Payments & FinTech Innovation posted by titc.io
Posted on 2025-09-19 00:00:00
| Employer | titc.io |
|---|---|
| Category | Other IT/Computer |
| Location | Western Cape / Cape Town |
Job Summary
You wont be a small cog in a big machine. Youll be a key voice, shaping both the technology and the culture of a business thats re-imagining how merchants optimize payments across global providers.
What Youll Be Building
The platform is already powering real customers and is architected on modern engineering principles:
- Cloud-native stack running on Google Cloud
- Infrastructure-as-Code and containerization
- A payment routing engine that intelligently selects the most efficient, lowest-cost path for each transaction
- Deep integrations with PSPs and card schemes, with a roadmap expanding into analytics, automation, and AI-driven optimization
Your mission: Scale this platform to support hundreds (and eventually thousands) of customers while maintaining speed, resilience, and innovation.
What Youll Do
- Own and evolve critical parts of the backend architecture, ensuring scalability and robustness
- Contribute across the stack – mostly backend, but with enough full-stack exposure to deploy and fix across the platform when needed
- Work closely with industry experts and directly with customers, translating their needs into elegant, resilient solutions
- Leverage payments data to experiment with ML/AI models that forecast, optimize, and deliver real-time insights
- Be part of a lean, senior engineering team where initiative, directness, and ownership are celebrated
- Mentor future hires and help shape a Cape Town engineering hub from the ground up
Requirements
What Were Looking For:
- Strong experience as a senior backend or full-stack engineer, ideally in Python, with exposure to modern practices (cloud-native, Docker, infra-as-code)
- Payments or PSP experience is highly valuable – especially if youve touched PCI, tokenization, or transaction routing at scale
- Curiosity and capability to work with data science/ML models, even if not as a specialist
- A communicator and collaborator who thrives in flat, high-trust, international teams
- Someone who takes initiative, spots problems, and solves them without waiting to be told
- A builder: not just of code, but of culture, best practices, and teams
Benefits
Whats In It for You:
- Competitive package R110,000 – R125,000 p/m
- Opportunity to work in Amsterdam during onboarding to immerse in the culture and codebase
- Backing of experienced fintech founders and solid funding – no idea stage uncertainty
- A direct path to leadership in Cape Town as the team scales
- The satisfaction of building something that genuinely moves the needle in global payments
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